On 11/2/17 1:11 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
Right now, what we have mostly works on FreeBSD 10.x and 11.x (it looks like 64-bit has a dmd test failure, and 32-bit has a Phobos test failure) as well as older versions of 12-to-be (that's what I run locally, since that's what TrueOS is based on), but several months ago, FreeBSD did make changes to stat and related functions so that inodes are 64-bit, and that obviously changed the API. They did a lot of work to make that compatible so that programs didn't just break, but the compatibility stuff that they did was for C/C++, and we don't use C/C++ headers;
Well, that is only header compatibility, not binary compatibility. In other words, that still means if you use C or C++, you need to recompile if you are on FreeBSD 12. You can't have one binary that supports both platforms.
If this is the only compatibility they support, then I think we do need to have multiple versions.
-Steve
